Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

When in doubt, do the obvious.

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.

She's an idiot. She's looking at life through a selfish, lusty haze.

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

You're much more interesting when you're online - all of us are.

You don't need a reason to divorce someone you can't stand.

It does no good to be right, if what you're craving is wrong.

Changes should not scare us because it is a natural process

There are ghosts of yourself scattered everywhere, Whispers of a moment suspended in time, Where every life that you've brushed up againstNow lives with a piece of you trapped in their mind.

Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too.

Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.

If you really want to examine your strength, see how many times a day you are disturbed.

I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd love to do more of them, but the writing and historical stuff I'll probably always do.